From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joel James Adamson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Custom themes Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:08:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r5fxnwcp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286908855 15625 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2010 18:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Lilja Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 12 20:40:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P5jmP-00074M-Ga for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:40:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60033 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P5jmO-0006Zd-OA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35759 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P5fXF-0005rP-AM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:08:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P5fXC-0008BU-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:08:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mxip3i.isis.unc.edu ([152.2.2.195]:64071) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P5fXC-00083h-8i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:08:54 -0400 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.1 cv=GBsQDaIgBaq4gQFJ5CX0+M0Yio7VFXzjC6pTiCnI4FE= c=1 sm=2 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=kTb6q5SWAAAA:8 a=Pj2Clu3Yq4VOElRPmhgA:9 a=UX3K9AlHHd8OrAPBORi8To7Q3ikA:4 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=e3Xaimvh10K1-aTle6MA:9 a=BQU45NaARbCqtlK-d8WrtT1rTa0A:4 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEACcItEyYAgL6/2dsb2JhbAChUXG0fohmhUgEjTqCcA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,320,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="1598252" Original-Received: from smtp.unc.edu ([152.2.2.250]) by mxip3o.isis.unc.edu with ESMTP; 12 Oct 2010 10:08:14 -0400 Original-Received: from chondestes.bio.unc.edu.email.unc.edu (chondestes.bio.unc.edu [152.2.67.61]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.unc.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o9CE8Ep5018312 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:08:14 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Eric Lilja's message of "Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:04:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:32:38 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131644 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Eric Lilja writes: > On 2010-10-11 07:15, Chong Yidong wrote: >> Emacs looks for Custom themes in .emacs.d and the load path; a theme >> named "foo" is looked for in foo-theme.el. I'm currently not sure >> whether the default selection of themes distributed with Emacs should be >> in a subdirectory in etc/, or in lisp/. >> >> Note, also, that because the package manager adds to the load-path, it >> is possible to distribute Custom themes, or collections of themes, as >> packages, which is nice. >> >> > > Mr Yidong, I just wanted to say how happy I reading this! I've been > using color-theme but I was worried that it appeared to be > abandonware, more or less, and I wanted something official already > included. Thank you! Me too: color-theme surprises me far too much. I like some of the themes, but I would like to be able to readily switch between my own light and dark themes depending on changing my desktop color scheme. I haven't gotten the existing theme machinery working on this. Joel =2D-=20 Joel J. Adamson Servedio Lab University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill FSF Member #8164 http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAky0a84ACgkQp61eY7lvATIcigD7B6BX/VkAARigN7Y6FbR+rXxb MmL6O2K3PMCACECJ5ZMA/1NfoKC23d9j+c8SzKyPG0h0LUC39LoMytE+99BS4AXk =Km3/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--